Holidays of Belarus - Day of Land Management and Cartographic and Geodetic Service Workers

The list of public holidays of the Republic of Belarus includes the Day of Workers of Land Management and Cartographic and Geodetic Services, celebrated annually on February 21. It was approved by the President of the Republic A.G. Lukashenko on September 17, 2001. The oldest professional land management and cartographic service in Belarus has been run for many years by workers who painstakingly carry out this most important work to improve all existing land relations. The activities of geologists, land managers, geographers, historians are impossible without clear, informative data, which this service provides. Belarusian surveyors, topographers and cartographers create unique geodetic and cartographic materials that are of strategic importance for the country's defense capability. Their painstaking work has ancient traditions, because the very first documented evidence of sovereign land acts date back to the end of the 14th century. According to them, even then the Belarusians, who were called riders, were measuring the land and drawing up maps of the territories of Belarus. Carefully compiled maps, whether topographical, physical, or political, are currently indispensable. They are the main source of reliable, factual information for the military, builders, geologists, tourists and ordinary schoolchildren. Therefore, this work of people is so important and valuable for the entire population, because it represents, in full view, our countries and the whole world, in its present, physical embodiment. The competence of the State Property Committee of Belarus includes the implementation of a unified state policy in the field of all kinds of land relations, geodesy, cartography, and detailed maps are drawn up. In addition, the department is also involved in state registration of real estate, which is both privately owned and administered by the Republic of Belarus. Currently, there are 47 organizations working in this area, with 8 thousand specialists. The ancient profession of land surveyor today has been significantly transformed: geographers, architects, cadastral registrars, appraisers, real estate specialists, economists and lawyers work tirelessly in it. Historical experience in the development of land relations in Belarus and other countries clearly shows that careful order in the economically productive use of land, their rational reorganization, carried out in the interests of all land owners, can be ensured exclusively under control of government authorities. The main task of all Belarusian land managers is to promote national values ​​- to teach to value and protect their native land, to properly organize its environmental management in order to preserve it, alive and flourishing, for centuries for future generations.